Papertraining

Question
I have new maltipoo puppy (born April 26). We've had her since she was 8 weeks old (about a month now) and are paper training her with wee wee pads. We keep her in a small pen (in the kitchen)and she reliably uses the pads. When we let her out into the kitchen for more exercide and playtime, we put another pad near the pen. She more often than not poops anywhere outside the pen, although she will sometimes use the pad for urination. How can we help her more reliably to learn that she should go to the pad outside the pen also? It's hard to know when she will poop and we don't usually see it happening. We will ultimately want to teach her to make outside the house also, but for now are focused on paper training inside.

Also: she takes a long time to eat her meals (we feed her 3x a day with Purina Puppy Chow, which the breeder used and the vet said was fine. So we wind up leaving the food in the pen for more than an hour each meal. I read that some experts think that food should be limited to maybe 15 minutes each meal, but she is so small (less than 3 pounds now) that we want her to eat each meal and don't like removing it. Any opinion on that would be appreciated.  

Answer
You must train her to use the same spot every time and she must be supervised (keep her on the leash) at all times when she is in the greater part of the house. Introduce her to a small space at first and then gradually add more rooms. IF you want her to learn to go outside, you should train her to go outside. If you teach a dog that there are multiple potty options, she'll assume that there are even more options.

You'll find some tips at http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-7644-Detroit-Pet-Training-Examiner~y2009m7d13...

If you take the food away after 15 minutes, she will learn to eat quicker. But if you want to leave it for a half hour, no harm done. An hour is way too long.